PhishKey: A Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction
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| author | Castaño, Felipe Fidalgo, Eduardo Alegre, Enrique Alaiz-Rodríguez, Rocio Orduna, Raul Zola, Francesco |
| author_facet | Castaño, Felipe Fidalgo, Eduardo Alegre, Enrique Alaiz-Rodríguez, Rocio Orduna, Raul Zola, Francesco |
| contents | Phishing attacks pose a significant cybersecurity threat, evolving rapidly to bypass detection mechanisms and exploit human vulnerabilities. This paper introduces PhishKey to address the challenges of adaptability, robustness, and efficiency. PhishKey is a novel phishing detection method using automatic feature extraction from hybrid sources. PhishKey combines character-level processing with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for URL classification, and a Centroid-Based Key Component Phishing Extractor (CAPE) for HTML content at the word level. CAPE reduces noise and ensures complete sample processing avoiding crop operations on the input data. The predictions from both modules are integrated using a soft-voting ensemble to achieve more accurate and reliable classifications. Experimental evaluations on four state-of-the-art datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of PhishKey. It achieves up to 98.70% F1 Score and shows strong resistance to adversarial manipulations such as injection attacks with minimal performance degradation. |
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| spellingShingle | PhishKey: A Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction Castaño, Felipe Fidalgo, Eduardo Alegre, Enrique Alaiz-Rodríguez, Rocio Orduna, Raul Zola, Francesco Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence Phishing attacks pose a significant cybersecurity threat, evolving rapidly to bypass detection mechanisms and exploit human vulnerabilities. This paper introduces PhishKey to address the challenges of adaptability, robustness, and efficiency. PhishKey is a novel phishing detection method using automatic feature extraction from hybrid sources. PhishKey combines character-level processing with Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) for URL classification, and a Centroid-Based Key Component Phishing Extractor (CAPE) for HTML content at the word level. CAPE reduces noise and ensures complete sample processing avoiding crop operations on the input data. The predictions from both modules are integrated using a soft-voting ensemble to achieve more accurate and reliable classifications. Experimental evaluations on four state-of-the-art datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of PhishKey. It achieves up to 98.70% F1 Score and shows strong resistance to adversarial manipulations such as injection attacks with minimal performance degradation. |
| title | PhishKey: A Novel Centroid-Based Approach for Enhanced Phishing Detection Using Adaptive HTML Component Extraction |
| topic | Cryptography and Security Artificial Intelligence |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.21106 |